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Hugh Freeze insists Auburn’s defense has been good ‘at most things’ through Week 6
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Auburn has had a rocky 3-2 start to the season, but Hugh Freeze still likes what he’s seen from his team’s defense so far.
Freeze believes his defense is doing what it’s supposed to, but still has room for improvement. Mostly, he wants to avoid having more than a few plays a game where a slip up costs them. Having a few less slip ups could have been the difference in Auburn’s narrow loss to Georgia a few weeks ago.
“I think we’ve been pretty good at most things,” Freeze said during the SEC coaches teleconference Wednesday. “I guess like all teams, and with us, collectively as a whole team struggling in some areas. Those margin of error for victory come down to a few plays and defensively we’ve played extremely well a lot of times. But we still will have those 5 or 6 plays a game that we may screw up alignment or assignment and it costs us. And those are the ones that because of, again, the whole makeup of our team, probably are magnified more. But I think our kids are playing extremely hard and competitive level.”
He also emphasized that if he can get his team healthy, the defense will see some improvement.
“Now we’re not as healthy,” Freeze said. “I think if we’d be really, really good if we’d have everybody healthy. But like many teams, we’re going through those difficulties also.”
Auburn will needs its defense to step up on Saturday as the Tigers take on LSU in Death Valley.
